Platinum Member

Well, I decided to split the difference. I ordered 12GB of memory, a 1TB Muskin Reactor SSD and an Asus MG278Q monitor. If AMD cuts prices week after next, I will pick up 2 Sapphire Fury to give him one, and put a second in my system.

The new monitor at a higher resolution should take some load off the CPU and put it on the GPU.

Platinum Member

It's not uncommon to forget. The gen only stayed current for about a year at which point most upgraded to sandy bridge. I had an oc'd i5 750 up until 9 months ago and it still played games that were too much for core2 quads.

Golden Member

It's not uncommon to forget. The gen only stayed current for about a year at which point most upgraded to sandy bridge. I had an oc'd i5 750 up until 9 months ago and it still played games that were too much for core2 quads.

From past release cycles, there had been 1 year on average between Core i generations with each socket being occupied by one tick and one tock architecture.
Such as
1156 Lynnfield -> Clarkdale
1155 Sandy Bridge -> Ivy Bridge
1150 Haswell -> Broadwell
1151 Skylake -> Kabylake

Golden Member

The memory I bought won't be here till Tuesday. The SSD should be here tomorrow. I will work on putting in the new SSD and cooler this weekend. The monitor came in today, and I picked him up a Logitech C920 and a Blue Snowball mic. If all that works, add in a decent MKB and mouse, and new set of cans before I decide on a GPU and he'll be happy.

Platinum Member

From past release cycles, there had been 1 year on average between Core i generations with each socket being occupied by one tick and one tock architecture.
Such as
1156 Lynnfield -> Clarkdale
1155 Sandy Bridge -> Ivy Bridge
1150 Haswell -> Broadwell
1151 Skylake -> Kabylake

Lifer

Overclock your Uncore and QPI interconnect. Core O'clock did a little for me for games, HT on helped with DX11, but the Uncore and QPI speed really helped. I would say QPI the most. I use rig 2 for gaming, sig